In October 2011, Apple won a patent detailing the method of sliding an onscreen mark to unlock the iOS operating system on a mobile device. Now, just four months later, Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus is coming under fire for violating that patent.

As Samsung and Apple have been going head-to-head in court lately, this should come as little surprise. The latest battlefield was in Germany where Samsung was hoping (more…)

Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus went on sale in the UK earlier in the week. It’s the first smartphone to get Google’s next generation mobile operating system – Android 4.0 dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich.
has published some initial performance analysis of the flagship smartphone obtained from the GLBenchmark database, which reveals that it performs better than
on the SunSpider Javascript benchmark and the Rightware BrowserMark, but lags in the graphics departments.
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Google yesterday unveiled Nexus S, the successor to the
.
The new Android phone will be manufactured by Samsung and will be hitting the American stores on December 16. This is expected to be followed by a launch in the UK on December 20.
, Andy Rubin, the VP of Engineering at Google has noted that the Nexus S shall be the first smartphone to come with the new Android 2.3 platform. Besides this, the Nexus S will feature a 4″ WVGA Contour Display (more…)

In this video we compare the startup time of Windows Phone 7 with Windows Mobile, iPhone , and Android. As a reminder, we're testing on non-final Windows Phone 7 hardware and software […]
Since most people leave their phones turned on all the time, startup time is not that big of a deal […]
So as you might have seen, Windows Phone 7 is the fastest when it comes to the boot up time.
Were you surprised by the results? Let us know what you (more…)

earlier this year. They had developed an interesting application for the iPhone that studied the amount of radiation emitted by the iPhone from any particular location. But it has not been approved by Apple yet.
Tawkon does not offer precise measurements of cell phone radiation. Instead, the application studies various factors like distance from cell phone tower, signal strength, weather condition, terrain, antenna proximity from the body, antenna (more…)

So what can we make of the A4 processor now that the iPad has reached its users? Folks at
against iPhone 3GS' Cortex A8 and Nexus One's Qualcomm QSD8250 chip.
,
using the official WebKit SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark test. The results are quite a revelation. While the study indicates a 10% faster webpage loading time on the iPad compared to the Nexus One, the A4 shows a 37.6% better performance over Nexus One's Qualcomm SoC in the (more…)

sold just 135,000 handsets in the first 74 days post launch. This is in stark contrast to the over 1 million handsets that Apple sold in the 74 days after the iPhone first went on sale on June 29, 2007. Calling the estimated sale numbers of Nexus One ”
“, Flurry notes that the reasons for the subdued figures could be because of ”
unconventional choices in marketing, pricing and distribution.
Interestingly, Flurry's report also notes that
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One feature where the Nexus One appeared to have bettered the iPhone was in its OLED display which was without doubt brighter and had a higher resolution than iPhone 's LCD screen.
However, a recent study conducted by
technologies, which intricately looked into the quality of the two displays throws light on some attributes that show how the iPhone 's display could actually be better than Nexus One's.
Nexus One uses a PenTile sub-pixel (more…)

The company has faced quite a bit of challenges in just the initial week or so. One of the major problems has apparently been the sales model. With no '
' to precede a purchase, most buyers have apparently stayed away till they get to see a working model with their friends.
The first week of sale has thus not been very encouraging with Flurry, the popular mobile app analytics company reporting that only close to 20,000 Nexus One handsets (more…)

. Back then, it was evident that despite the Droid's 5MP camera, pictures taken with the iPhone were still of better quality than those from the Droid. With the
, how does this new handset compare with iPhone in terms of camera picture quality? CNET writer Josh Lowensohn has a comparison of the pictures taken from the two devices that offers pretty interesting results.
According to his casual study, one of the biggest plus-points for Nexus (more…)